being before dice causing remains

Moonblade

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

rejects you but also places a curse on you, causing you to make D20 Test;D20 Tests with Disadvantage for 24 hours or until the curse is ended by a Remove Curse spell or similar magic. If you’re

. You control this entity, deciding how it acts and moves. It remains until it drops to 0 Hit Points or you dismiss it as a Magic action.

Bloodshed Blade

Magic Items Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

. When you target a creature with an attack using this weapon, you can invoke the sword’s rune, causing it to flare with crimson light and infusing your attack with bloodthirsty precision. You

then spend and roll one of your unspent Hit Dice and add the number rolled to the attack roll. You can choose to invoke the rune after rolling the d20. If this attack hits, you can also spend and roll

Stone Defender Legacy

Monsters Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes

False Appearance. While the stone defender remains motionless against an uneven earthen or stone surface, it is indistinguishable from that surface. Magic Resistance. The stone defender has advantage

. In response to another creature within 5 feet of it being hit by an attack roll, the stone defender gives that creature a +5 bonus to its AC against that attack, potentially causing a miss. To use this

Orzhov Giant

Monsters Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

Focus. As a bonus action, the giant can target a creature it can see within 30 feet of it and make that creature its focus. The target remains the giant’s focus for 1 minute, or until either

","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Greataxe","rollDamageType":"slashing"} slashing damage. If the Orzhov giant scores a critical hit, it rolls the damage dice three times, instead of twice. Rock. Ranged

Demilich (Variant) Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

speed. Cloud of Dust. The demilich magically swirls its dusty remains. Each creature within 10 feet of the demilich, including around a corner, must succeed on a DC 16 Constitution saving throw or be

, accepting that it would molder and dissolve to dust while he traveled the planes as a disembodied consciousness. If the skull that was his last physical remains was ever disturbed, its gems would claim the

Corpse Flower

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

remains of up to nine Humanoids. These remains have total cover against attacks and other effects outside the corpse flower. If the corpse flower dies, the corpses within it can be pulled free. Spider

necromancer or the remains of powerful Undead creatures. Unless it is uprooted and burned while it is still a seedling, the corpse flower grows to enormous size over several weeks, then tears itself free

Needle Spawn

Monsters Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1

plant creatures that hail from fey domains wracked by wanton violence. When a needle lord enters a worldly forest, it spreads seed pods wherever it roams. A pod remains dormant until a humanoid dies near

it or a humanoid corpse is dragged close by, whereupon the pod burrows into the corpse's decaying flesh and sprouts ropey vines covered in long, sharp needles. The vines wrap around the corpse to animate it, causing it to rise and lurch about like a zombie.

Huge Gray Ooze

Monsters Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

damage. The ooze can eat through 2-inch-thick, nonmagical metal in 1 round. False Appearance. While the ooze remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from an oily pool or wet rock. Enlarge

(Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). For 1 minute, the ooze magically increases in size. While enlarged, the ooze is Gargantuan, doubles its damage dice with its pseudopod attack, and makes Strength checks

Balor (Summoner Variant) Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

scores a critical hit, it rolls damage dice three times, instead of twice. Whip. Melee Weapon Attack: +14;{"diceNotation":"1d20+14","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Whip"} to hit, reach 30 ft., one

remains for 1 minute, until it or its summoner dies, or until its summoner dismisses it as an action.Fire, PoisonCold, Lightning; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks

Nightmare Haunt

Monsters Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures

unconscious creature remains asleep until it is no longer in the area with tendrils, takes any damage, or is targeted by a remove curse spell or similar magic.Nightmare haunts are terrors from the

curse. Even with the Phyrexians defeated, the curse remains and spreads unchecked through Eldraine due to interference from the planeswalker Ashiok and Eriette, one of the witches who helped create the

Sibriex

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

effect, you can roll percentile dice and consult the Flesh Warping table to determine an additional effect, which vanishes when Warp Creature ends on the creature. If the creature transforms into a manes

feet. 91–95 The target’s body becomes unusually brittle, causing the target to have vulnerability to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage. 96–00 The target grows

Sahuagin Wave Shaper

Monsters Ghosts of Saltmarsh

at least 50 feet square and 25 feet deep, causing a whirlpool to form in the center of the area. The whirlpool forms a vortex that is 5 feet wide at the base, up to 50 feet wide at the top, 25 feet

(Athletics) check to do so. The first time each turn that an object enters the vortex, the object takes 9 (2d8);{"diceNotation":"2d8","rollType":"damage","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage. This damage occurs each round it remains in the vortex.

Refraction of Ilvaash

Monsters Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

. The refraction targets a creature within 120 feet of itself and disrupts its mental processes, causing the target to have disadvantage on all ability checks, attack rolls, and saving throws until the

end of the target’s next turn. Projected Claw (Costs 2 Actions). The refraction makes one Dissonant Claw attack.Ilvaash was formed from the remains of the mind flayer god Ilsensine, the God

Needle Lord

Monsters Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1

by needle lords—hulking plant creatures that hail from fey domains wracked by wanton violence. When a needle lord enters a worldly forest, it spreads seed pods wherever it roams. A pod remains

wrap around the corpse to animate it, causing it to rise and lurch about like a zombie. Invasive Species. When a great battle is fought in a fey woodland, the plants of the wood sometimes take on the

Wastrilith

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

lightly obscured;lightly obscures the area until a current clears it away. Water in containers remains corrupted until it evaporates. A creature that consumes this foul water or swims in it must make a

defilement, you can use the optional rule on abyssal corruption in chapter 2 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide, causing the poisoned creature to be corrupted.PoisonCold, Fire, Lightning; Bludgeoning

Astral Dreadnought

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

diameter with a ceiling 100 feet high. Like a stomach, it contains the remains of past meals. The dreadnought can’t be harmed from within the demiplane. If the dreadnought dies, the demiplane

successful one.Enormous and terrifying, astral dreadnoughts haunt the silvery void of the Astral Plane, causing planar travelers to shudder at the very thought of them. Dreadnoughts have been gliding through

Clockwork Stone Defender

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

attack roll, the clockwork gives that creature a +5 bonus to its AC against that attack, potentially causing a miss. To use this ability, the clockwork must be able to see the creature and the

number of Hit Dice. 8 Suction. The clockwork gains a climbing speed of 30 feet. 9 Vocal Resonator. The clockwork gains the ability to speak rudimentary Common or Gnomish. 10 Water

Githzerai Anarch Legacy

Monsters Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes

spell (as a 9th-level spell) using the unformed substance of Limbo instead of shadow material. If used in Limbo, the object remains until the anarch’s concentration is broken, regardless of its

anarch’s lair is warped by its presence, which creates one or more of the following effects: In Limbo, the anarch can spend 10 minutes stabilizing a 5-mile area centered on it, causing the

Githzerai Anarch

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

creation spell (as a 9th-level spell) using the unformed substance of Limbo instead of shadow material. If used in Limbo, the object remains until the anarch’s concentration is broken, regardless

: Form Substance. In Limbo, the anarch can spend 10 minutes stabilizing a 5-mile area centered on it, causing the unformed substance to take whatever inanimate form the anarch chooses. During that

Hermit - Baldur's Gate

Backgrounds Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

of Seclusion 1 You led an ill-fated expedition into the Riverveins. Your friends were swept away by flooding, and you’ve never been able to shake the guilt of causing their deaths over

contradictions, fills your hours. 4 You tend to some part of the city’s forgotten history: the unmarked graves in Cliffside Cemetery, the crumbling remains of dead patriar families’ manors, or

Shadar-kai Gloom Weaver

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

invisible and teleports, along with any equipment it is wearing or carrying, up to 60 feet to an unoccupied space it can see. It remains invisible until the start of its next turn or until it attacks or

the heart, causing those nearby to feel the approach of death. If detected, gloom weavers use their shadow magic to reduce enemies to ghastly corpses. Shadar-kai In the gloom of the Shadowfell live

Clockwork Bronze Scout

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

save, or half as much damage on a successful one.A bronze scout seldom emerges from underground. Its telescoping eyestalks observe foes at close range while most of its segmented body remains buried

damage, this ability doesn’t function at the start of its next turn. 7 Sturdy Frame. The clockwork’s hit point maximum increases by an amount equal to its number of Hit Dice. 8

Baernaloth

Monsters Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse

as an ally of the baernaloth, and can’t summon other yugoloths. It remains for 1 minute, until it or the baernaloth dies, or until the baernaloth dismisses it as an action. Teleport. The

a long rest, and it regains only half the usual number of hit points when it spends Hit Dice during a short rest. If the baernaloth dies, these effects end immediately.Acid, PoisonCold, Fire, Lightning, Necrotic, Psychic; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks

Juiblex

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

as it remains in the slimy area or until it breaks free. The restrained creature, or another creature that can reach it, can use its action to try to break free and must succeed on a DC 21 Strength

critical hit or is reduced to 0 hit points, it sprays acid; each creature within 5 feet of it takes acid damage equal to its number of Hit Dice. Acid, Poison; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing that is NonmagicalCold, Fire, Lightning

Blackstaff

Magic Items Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

staff’s charges as a bonus action, causing the target to expend one spell slot of the highest spell level it can cast without casting a spell. If the target has already expended all its spell

.) Destroying the staff would release the spirits trapped inside it, but in that event, Khelben’s spirit can lodge itself inside any one piece of the staff that remains. The piece containing Khelben&rsquo

Zombies

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)

too slow to escape its grasp. Dark Servants. Sinister necromantic magic infuses the remains of the dead, causing them to rise as zombies that do their creator’s bidding without fear or hesitation. They

move with a jerky, uneven gait, clad in the moldering apparel they wore when put to rest, and carrying the stench of decay. Most zombies are made from humanoid remains, though the flesh and bones of

X31. Central Catacombs

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd

X31. Central Catacombs These catacombs contain the moldy remains of the wizards who once defended the Amber Temple. Later generations of wizards who were corrupted by the evil of the temple smashed

you enter, casting flickering light upon the walls and causing the shattered amber to glitter. The magic candles ignite when a living creature enters the catacombs and melt away if taken from the area.

24: Escape Pod

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things

24: Escape Pod Three metal platforms in this bay once held escape pods, only one of which remains; it resembles a large coffin made of semitranslucent orange crystal. One Medium creature or two Small

creatures can fit inside the escape pod. If the pod’s door is closed, a creature inside the pod can use an action to pull a lever, causing the stanchions holding the pod in place to collapse, a hatch

Adult Crystal Dragon

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

any ice or quartz crystals in that region. Positive Energy. Any creature that finishes a long rest within 6 miles of the lair regains two additional spent Hit Dice. Thriving Wildlife. Animal

quartz crystals remains, but new crystals form at a normal rate.Cold, RadiantChange Shape. The dragon magically transforms into any creature that is Medium or Small, while retaining its game

Ancient Crystal Dragon

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

regains two additional spent Hit Dice. Thriving Wildlife. Animal populations flourish within 6 miles of the lair. Ability checks made to forage for food by hunting, fishing, or trapping in that area are

increased Hit Die recovery ends immediately. The existing abundance of quartz crystals remains, but new crystals form at a normal rate.Cold, RadiantChange Shape. The dragon magically transforms into

Orzhov Giant

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica

Common, Giant Challenge 6 (2,300 XP) Focus. As a bonus action, the giant can target a creature it can see within 30 feet of it and make that creature its focus. The target remains the giant’s focus

target. Hit: 25 (3d12 + 6) slashing damage. If the Orzhov giant scores a critical hit, it rolls the damage dice three times, instead of twice. Rock. Ranged Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, range 60/240 ft., one target. Hit: 28 (4d10 + 6) bludgeoning damage. KARL KOPINSKI

Demilich

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)

mortal souls to its phylactery. If it falters or fails in that task, its bones turn to dust until only its skull remains. This “demilich” contains only a fragment of the lich’s malevolent life force

— just enough so that if it is disturbed, these remains rise into the air and assume a wraithlike form. The skull then emits a terrifying howl that can slay the weak-hearted and leave others trembling

Stone Defender

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

Challenge 4 (1,100 XP) False Appearance. While the stone defender remains motionless against an uneven earthen or stone surface, it is indistinguishable from that surface. Magic Resistance. The

that creature a +5 bonus to its AC against that attack, potentially causing a miss. To use this ability, the stone defender must be able to see the creature and the attacker.

Corpse Flower

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

Corpse Flower A corpse flower can sprout atop the grave of an evil necromancer or the remains of powerful undead. Unless it is uprooted and burned while it is still a seedling, the corpse flower

grows to enormous size over several weeks, then tears itself free of the earth and begins scavenging humanoid corpses from battlefields and graveyards. Using its fibrous tentacles, it stuffs the remains

Corpse Flower

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse

Corpse Flower A corpse flower can sprout atop the grave of an evil necromancer or the remains of powerful Undead creatures. Unless it is uprooted and burned while it is still a seedling, the corpse

remains into its body to sustain and repair itself. The plant has a malevolent bent and despises the living. With or without corpses nested in its body, a corpse flower exudes a stench of decay that

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